Webpage+in+First+Class

**First Class (FC) Website Skills Class**
Infolit Wiki
 * Our goal is to get each of you to create a "managable page" that you will be able to maintain. Feel free to get fancier if you wish, but it's not necessary.**

**The best place to get help when creating a webpage is the HELP Button on your First Class Desktop **

**Back-up your webpage if you plan to make major changes.**
 * Select a page or set of pages.
 * File menu and select "export".
 * Select a folder to contain the back-up of your files.
 * Click "open".
 * Your page has now been backed up.


 * Skins - Formatting your website **
 * A skin must be applied to an entire folder.
 * Select the web folder to be formatted.
 * Click the "appearance" button - Select a skin.
 * Click OKAY.

**Basic Skills**
 * **Background** - will be provided by your choice of skin. You can set it manually if you really want to.
 * **Entering Content** - Most of your basic word processing and formatting tools are available in FC. You can change fonts, allignment, resize, cut, copy, paste and more.

**Creating hyperlinks** – remember that a hyperlink has two parts, a title and a URL. The URL is the "http://www" part.
 * Type whatever you want for a link title on your document. Type a couple of spaces after the title or just hit the enter or return key.
 * Highlight the title you just typed to select it.
 * Select the “make link” button (the little red w/blue arrow button is directly above the box where you choose “left”, “right” or “center”. A link format window will appear.
 * Type or paste the URL of your link in the URL box. Make sure that your link begins with http://
 * Change the "open in new window" option to "open in same window" so users can navigate your site with their "back button".
 * To edit or test a link already created - double click on the red "fire cracker" icon in front of the link title.

**Images**
 * Prepare your image - duplicate it, crop & edit it, resize it, save it
 * Insert the image into your webpage - "Insert" menu - Choose "image/file"
 * Select the image you have prepared - Click "open"
 * Format the image.• Select the image. - Choose the "format" menu then choose "selected"
 * Make changes and then click OK.

**Tables**
 * Often used to put your text, links and images in columns and rows.
 * Insert the table and specify how many rows and columns.
 * Format the alignment, the borders, the size etc... (Format, table)
 * Borders may have different colors, widths or you may choose no borders.

**Customizing a skin** -You can customize the colors of each section of the skin as well as the font and style of your text.
 * Select the web folder you wish to customize
 * Click the arrow at the right of the "appearance" button.'
 * Click the OKAY button to save changes.


 * Save, Save and Save Again!**